Grunauer Alexander Adolfovich (on October 4, 1921 in
Krasnodar) is a well noted Soviet scientist and expert in the field of
problems of regulation of
internal combustion engines. An experienced teacher, professor. A
Dr.Sci.Tech. (1969). Professor (1972). Chairman of department «Theory of
mechanisms and machine» at the Kharkov polytechnical institute
(1968—1993). The professor of the same department (1993—1994).

During
the war he worked as a turner, the serviceman at factories of the tank
industry in Stalingrad and Barnaul. He graduated from the Kharkov
mechanical-machine-building institute (1948). After the institute he
worked as the chief of power station at Vyatsko-Polyansky house-building
industrial complex (1948—1950), at the Kharkov autorepair factory
(1950—1951).

Since 1951 he worked at the Kharkov polytechnical institute as
assistant professor (1951—1961), as associate professor (1961—1968), and
then as full professor, Chairman of department (1968—1993), emeritus
professor of department (1993—1994).

Professor Grunauer is actively engaged in scientific work. The main
direction of his scientific activity is regulation of internal
combustion engines. On the basis of researches he had prepared a course
«Automatic control of internal combustion engine». Takes up the problems
of working out of analytical methods in the theory of mechanisms and the
machine focused on the COMPUTER of various types. He had many time
interesting reports at all-Union and international conferences and has
published more than 100 scientific works, including four monographies.
He supervised over preparation of two doctors and 10 candidates of
sciences. He had developed and read lecture courses «Mechanics of robots»,
«Numerical methods in engineering practice». He had provided read
courses with the necessary educational and methodical literature. A lot
of attention gives to perfection of a technique of teaching,
introduction of new technologies.

He was a member of specialised academic councils for defense
candidate and theses for a doctor's degree. He worked as the associate
editor and the editor of the collection «Theory of mechanisms and
machine». Since 1994 professor Grunauer lives in Germany,
Kaiserslautern. He is a foreign member of National committee of
Ukraine on «Theory of mechanisms and machine» (1994). He is awarded by a
medal «For valorous work in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945».